When it comes to vestments there will always be "better" and "worse" but that will be a subjective aesthetic assessment. On the other hand, many of the garments on this site fall, in my opinion, into the "unacceptable" category. I think this should not be an aesthetic judgement but rather based on violation of more objective criterion (many of which are often articulated here as well).

Personally, I think this a rather poor example of a green chasuble, but I cannot call it a "bad vestment."

This is the most sane vestment in the collection on this blog! I don't know what the problem is. It's not exactly the most beautiful chasuble, but it's not bad. Just inexpensive and probably within some priest's or parish's budget at one time.

I still think CJ is onto something. There's liturgical dissonance here. Green is the "life color" as we grow in Christ through the lessons of Common Time. Black, seldom used anymore, was the vestment color of mourning. "Blessed are those who mourn," I guess. We can grow through grief. Is that the theme here?

Really, on a deep green vestment, one normally looks for gold or other lively colors representing the glory to which Christian growth leads.

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